GCP Data Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer, Software Engineer, or Data Application Engineer
• Excellent hands-on development experience with Python, ideally alongside Go and BASH
• Strong experience building applications, services, and data pipelines within Google Cloud Platform
• Hands-on knowledge of BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Dataflow
• Experience designing and developing scalable ETL and data processing solutions
• Good understanding of software engineering principles, testing, and production-grade development
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and ideally Ansible
• Experience working with CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines
• Strong knowledge of Linux environments
• Comfortable working within a large-scale engineering environment and taking ownership of solutions through development, deployment, and production support
• Able to work 2 days per week onsite in Osterley

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data applications and engineering solutions within GCP
• Build production-grade ETL and data processing pipelines handling large volumes of data
• Develop cloud-native applications and services using Python, Go, and BASH
• Work extensively with GCP technologies, including BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Dataflow
• Build and integrate APIs, services, and automated workflows across the data platform
• Write reusable, maintainable, and well-tested application code
• Automate cloud infrastructure and deployments using Terraform and Ansible
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GoCD
• Support applications and services running within Linux-based environments
• Troubleshoot performance, reliability, and production issues across applications and data pipelines
• Work closely with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions into production

Technologies:

• Ansible
• BigQuery
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• ETL
• GCP
• GitLab
• Support
• Jenkins
• Linux
• Python
• Terraform

More:

We are a leading media and broadcasting organisation working with 83zero to hire an experienced Data Engineer for an initial 6-month contract. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building and supporting cloud-native data applications, services, and scalable data pipelines within Google Cloud Platform. The contract is inside IR35, offers a rate of £525-£550 per day, and follows a hybrid working model with 2 days onsite in Isleworth.

last updated 36 week of 2026